Workshop Structural Change, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy: Painful
Lessons from the European Periphery
Conference program
Saturday, 14th September 2013
Welcome Address
09h00-09h30
Aurora Teixeira (U.Porto, CEF.UP, INESC TEC; OBEGEF); Ester Silva (U.Porto, ISFLUP and CEF.UP)and Ricardo
Paes Mamede (ISCTE-IUL and Dinâmia)
Session I: The context: EMU, convergence, austerity
Robert Boyer (CEPREMAP e CNRS)
The Euro does not imply productive convergence. An analysis of the crisis and of the ways to overcome it
09h30-11h00
Fernando Teixeira dos Santos (CEF.UP, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)
Convergence and Imbalances in the EMU
Bengt-Åke Lundvall (Aalborg University) and Edward Lorenz (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
The Lisbon Strategy, EUROPE 2020 and the Euro-crisis
11:00-11:30
Coffee break
Session II: Structural change and competitiveness in the European periphery
Miguel Lebre de Freitas (Universidade de Aveiro)
Comparative advantages and structural transformation: the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
11:30-13h00
Carlos Carreira (U.Coimbra, GEMF)
Learning, exporting and firm productivity: evidence from manufacturing and services firms
Miguel St Aubyn (ISEG, UniversidadeTécnica de Lisboa)
We'll still be here in the long run - austerity and the Portuguese growth hypothesis
13:00-14:00
Almoço
Session III: Technology, skills and innovation
Marta Simões and Adelaide Duarte (U.Coimbra, GEMF)
Human capital and growth in a services economy
14:00-15:30
Sandro Mendonça (ISCTE-IUL and SPRU)
National adaptive advantages: The role of ‘soft innovation’ in the European Periphery
Argentino Pessoa (U.Porto e CEF.UP)
Structural and technology change in the European periphery: the case of Portugal
Session IV: Policy issues
Ioanna Kastelli (Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), National Technical University of
Athens)
Industrial Policy in Greece: history, results and future challenges
15:30-17:00
Michele Di Maio (Department of Economic Studies, University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples, Italy)
Industrial Policy in Italy: history, results and future challenges
José Molero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Industrial Policy in Spain: history, results and future challenges
Ricardo Mamede (ISCTE-IUL and Dinâmia), Vitor Corado Simões (ISEG, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) and
Manuel Mira Godinho (ISEG, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa)
Industrial Policy in Portugal: history, results and future
17:00-17:30
17:30-19:00
Coffee break
Closing Session: Aurora Teixeira (U.Porto, CEF.UP, INESC TEC; OBEGEF); Ester Silva (U.Porto, ISFLUP and
CEF.UP) and Ricardo Paes Mamede (ISCTE-IUL and Dinâmia)
Competitiveness, structural change and industrial policyin Southern Europe: discussion and synthesis of
results